It's been a busy couple of months here at Aldridge Solutions, as well as our usual prepress support work and website development we've been implementing new B2CPrintShop web to print solutions for 3 customers who signed up as a result of our IPEX 2010 promotions.

Centre Print and Mail, Wolverhampton, Printshop UK Ltd, Devon and BST Printers Essex are all working to populate their new websites with unique products and templates in order to launch their new online print design and ordering services to the market.

B2CPrintShop Premium, which two of our new users have opted for, provides printers with B2C Web to Print (web2print,) services allowing any internet shopper to enter their website, choose from a huge range of example designs of personalised print on demand products, customise the design to suit their needs and order online, as well as providing B2B web to print access for corporate print customer to login, design, proof and order their company stationary and marketing materials.

B2CPrintShop Production, chosen as the right solution for them by one of our new users, provides just the B2C portion of the system, a powerful personalisation, print on demand, ecommerce website.

With an increasing amount of consumer and business spend moving online an easy to use internet shop front for your print business is a growing need, our sites provide you with a new sales and marketing channel that provides you with print ready proof approved PDF jobs to print, complete with payment with no direct input from the printer's at all. Low overheads like this are essential for short run, increasing your margins and keeping your digital presses running and earning you money with no input from the studio.